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Thoughts on Lakewood’s sidewalks

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I am again writing to you with some of my thoughts about the project in Lakewood that includes sidewalks and resurfacing on Route 394 (Fairmount Avenue). The state stated that the resurfacing was starting at Winch Road and continuing east and eventually to Jamestown city line. I believe the reason they are starting at Winch is that not too many years ago the state did a resurfacing that was west of Winch and did not continue any further east. Currently anything west of Winch does not need resurfacing. I see that the state sent a letter to the Village of Lakewood and the Town of ...

Happy 200th birthday, Post-Journal

Letters To The Editor

To The Reader’s Forum: "Hey, P-J. It’s been awhile. Too long, really. I won’t be in Jamestown anytime soon, so I wanted to wish you a happy birthday from the bottom of my heart. You won’t mind, I hope, if I give you a little praise? And why not? Why, by golly, Lucille Ball, Roger Toy Peterson, the 10,000 Maniacs, Justice Jackson and Nick Sirianni read YOU before they were famous. And (just between the two of us) you were the only one invited to see the King of Sweden - TWICE! Of course, you were the paper (as the Evening Journal and the Morning Post) who covered the ...

New officer is a first step in fight against animal cruelty

In Our Opinion

Over the past eight years, there have been only 20 entries in the Chautauqua County Animal Abuse registry - though five have been added since December. All came from the city of Jamestown. Perhaps the creation of a new deputy position in the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office to focus on animal abuse cases will increase that number. The Chautauqua County Legislature approved funding as part of the 2026 county budget. That deputy - Jim Andin - was introduced recently by Sheriff Jim Quattrone. Quattrone said most of the Sheriff’s Office deputies have a brief overview of animal ...

City will need new ways to pay for demolitions

In Our Opinion

Jamestown is on track to spend all of the American Rescue Plan Act funding it allocated for housing demolitions by the end of the year. That means the city will meet the federal deadline for the use of that pot of money - though that should be the least of the city’s concerns, in our opinion, when it comes to housing demolitions. The city usually budgets between $100,000 and $130,000 for emergency demolitions - or enough for between three to four demolitions. City officials also include funding for housing demolitions in the annual Community Development Block Grant program. In ...

CLP study has opportunity to influence lake actions quickly

In Our Opinion

The announcement of a $42,000 DEC grant to the Chautauqua Lake Partnership was easy to miss earlier this year, coming as it did only a couple of days before a judge announced Freshwater Wetland Act regulations the CLP and Chautauqua Lake Property Owners Association had been fighting in state Supreme Court had been annulled. But the grant, which is paying for a study by North Carolina State University researchers that has now begun, could end up having as big an impact on the lake as the temporary nullification of the Part 664 regulations. Part of the study assesses the three ...

Eighth, Fulton street residents show how to be neighbors

In Our Opinion

We noted last week that it is up to city residents - not city government - to rebuild the cohesive nature of Jamestown’s neighborhoods. A couple of days later, residents of Eighth and Fulton streets proved our point by becoming the first neighborhood to take the city and the Jamestown Police Department up on the offer to reinvigorate neighborhood watch groups in the city. The neighbors - many of whom have become familiar names through their advocacy over the course of the past couple of years at City Council meetings - are mobilizing in an attempt to help improve the conditions in ...